1. Department Features系所特色:

1. Our department will promptly coordinate with the policy of the Area Outstanding Sports Athletes Cultivation Plan issued by the Ministry of Education, Taiwan (R.O.C.), to strengthen the cultivation of Southern Taiwan outstanding sports athletes. In recent decade, Taiwan has cultivated many outstanding athletes, in which many of them were come from Southern Taiwan; for example, 6 of the 8 golden medals of Chinese Taipei Team were won by Kaohsiung City in the 2009 Kaohsiung City World Sports Games. And, Kaohsiung City has won nearly 20% of the total game medals amount in the recent 2 years (76 of 440 the total medals in 2011; 71 of 367 the total medals in 2010), which shows that the youth and adolescent outstanding athletes of Kaohsiung City are the key athletes of golden medal winners no matter in the international or domestic important Games. Therefore, the Great Kaohsiung is indeed the cradle for the cultivation of the national outstanding athletes.

2. In order to cultivate the future outstanding baseball athletes for the nation, our department coordinates with the policy of National Baseball Vitalization Total Program, organizes Group A Baseball Teams of University and City, and combine with local features as well as enterprise culture to promote the baseball sport of Southern Taiwan. On the other hand, our school also coordinates with the promotion group of Kaohsiung City Government Baseball Vitalization Program to plan the promotion of baseball activities in the 3 levels of schools as well as the cultivation plan of talent peoples, which includes the provision of guidance to individual Kaohsiung City middle and primary schools about the baseball keynotes for the policies in the development of their school baseball teams, further education, and job employment. In the plan, it also emphasizes the joint connection in the 3 levels of baseball system to have unimpeded channels of further education for the sports athletes. As according to records in the recent 2 years, there are 4 schools of Kaohsiung City (Kao-Yuan Vocational High School of Technology and Commerce, Kaohsiung Municipal Sanmin Senior High School, San Sin High School of Commerce and Home Economics, Huade Vocational High School of Technology & Home Economics) which occupied in the 8 baseball teams of rigid wooden bat in the Senior High School Baseball League Matches. There are nearly hundred more of outstanding baseball athletes graduated from the High Schools annually and Kaohsiung City Government recommended our school to pay serious attention to this current status and to coagulate mutual consensus for the additionally increasing admit amount of students with sports talented performance in the items of validation review and examination test. On the other hand, we deliberate and promote the assort measures of independent enrollment and those others. After held the public hearing conference made by our school with Kaohsiung City Government as well as the school teachers and directors which have sports educational classes in their schools, our school is recommended to coordinate with the program of area outstanding sports talents to establish the Department of Athletic Sports to implement the promotion in the 4 levels of baseball sport in Kaohsiung City (the Primary, Junior, and Senior High Schools as well as the Universities) to cultivate the baseball talents.

3. Our school has broad campus yard and the flat terrain (the area of school land is 82.5 hectare). The established sports stadiums and halls which complied with sports game standards include baseball stadium, international standard swimming pool, tennis court, badminton court and others to provide the high quality of training places for the various kinds of sports. Also, our school is located at Southern Taiwan with the stable climate which can make various kinds of sports without the influence from climate. It can enhance the practical strength effectively and rapidly for the development of sports competitions.

4. In order to coordinate with the sports resources and industries nearby our school, such as National Sports Park, National Sports Athlete Training Center, and Taiwan CPC Kaohsiung Refinery, we constructed the regional network of sports stadiums with the main base in National Sports Athlete Training Center. Coupled with the sports stadiums and multiple sites of land and water sports competition arenas, it becomes the city having the most intensive density of domestic sports stadiums. In the future, it will be coordinated with the outstanding sports athletes of our school by mutual supporting of software and hardware in apparatuses to achieve the sharing of resources and to implement expansively the basic sports population in Kaohsiung area as well as the target development of multivalent features of sports kinds.

本校位於南台灣重鎮高雄市，於101學年度創設「運動競技學系」，係緣於配合前行政院體育委員會「振興棒球總計畫」、教育部「區域優秀運動選手培育計畫」政策以及高雄市政府四級運動人才培育計畫。本校校地廣闊，運動設施與場館均符合競技訓練標準，且地理位置鄰近行政法人國家運動選手訓練中心及國家運動園區彼此可相互連結，建構與大高雄地區競技運動場館區域網絡，達到彼此共同發展之目標。另本校亦是南台灣優質國立綜合大學，除可提供選手專門知能學習環境，並可加強多元的通識教育陶冶，落實全人格教育、全方位學習，以提昇選手技能，培育符合國際高水準的運動競技人才，完備選手運動職涯，國立高雄大學運動競技學系之設立，解決南部地區優秀運動選手人才外流及遷移的現象，讓在地學子及優秀運動員可留在故鄉專心就學及訓練，對於南部地區的運動發展整合及運動人力與資源有絕對助益。

本系成立至今(2022)已邁入第10年，發展棒球、羽球、桌球及游泳四種運動專長項目，106學年度增設木球專長項目，至今共計五個運動項目。本系為增強陣容，配合國家體育運動發展政策特擬定「成立組訓足球項目專案計畫」向教育部體育署提出申請，並獲得教育部體育署的支持，同意本系於111學年度起外加10個招生名額招收足球專長學生，並補助二名專案教師薪資補強師資陣容，此對本系發展有極大的幫助。目前共4班約160名學生。組織員額共7名教師，計教授兼系主任1名、副教授1名、助理教授1名、專案助理教授3名、專案講師1名，行政人員1名。系務工作之推動，以系主任為首，除系學會為學生組織、課程委員會含學生成員外，各項委員會則以校外專家學者及本系教師組成，共同研議執行成果，以利系務之順暢與精進。

本系核心能力：

一、專業運動競技能力：
藉由專項訓練與結合運動科學理論，提升競技水平。

二、運動專項指導能力：
培養學生正確運動指導及技術分析能力，進而強化指導效能。

三、運動訓練科學基礎能力：
建立學生運動科學之概念，並了解運動科學和運動表現之關係，以奠定學生從事運動及指導之基礎。

四、運動管理基礎能力：
建立學生運動管理之概念，並介紹各種運動產業，使學生了解運動管理在各種運動產業的應用方式。

2. Future Prospects未來展望

After established the Department of Athletic Sports in the initial stage, we also emphasize the professional development of the relevant sports domains in addition to cultivate the outstanding sports athletes and promptly combine with the current existing software and hardware resources of National Sports Park as well as the locally unique relevant professional expertise of industries, governments, and academics, coordinately match with the developing tendencies of international sports in order to cultivate the national outstanding sports athletes and the professional talents with humanities literacy. At the same moment, we consider the social requirements of Taiwan as well as promote the professional talent cultivation of sports industry management and international competition executive capability as the vision of developments.